SOLD
Country of origin: France
Medium: Oil on canvas
Signed: Signedlower right
Dated: 1890
Condition: Very good original condition - one small repair verso. Executed on its original Blanchet canvas
Size: 45.00" x 33.00" (114.3cm x 83.8cm)
Framed Size: 51.00" x 39.00" (129.5cm x 99.1cm)
Provenance: Christie's London - 2nd December 1999
c. 1910
Oil on panel
£28,000.00
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Appareilleurs
by Maximilien Luce
c. 1910
Oil on original canvas
£5,950.00
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Nu avec des fleurs
by Georges D'Espagnat
1955
Oil on original canvas
£16,500.00
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Salon des arts menagers – 1955
by Jacques Martin-Ferrieres
1881
Oil on canvas
£79,500.00
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Le peintre en plein air
by Charles Theophile Angrand
1924
Oil on paper laid on panel
£5,950.00
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Dimanche
by Paul Elie Gernez
1932
Oil on board
£6,500.00
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Evening in Paris
by Louis Hayet
c. 1900
Oil on panel
£2,550.00
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Pierrot aux bonnet noir
by Armand Francois Henrion
1918
Oil on original canvas
£51,000.00
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Portrait of a Girl
by Alfredo Guttero
1915
Oil on panel
£2,650.00
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The Great War – Soldier & horse on a road
by Andre Devambez
1915
Oil on panel
£2,650.00
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Le Café de la Place Blanche
by Elie Anatole Pavil
1903
Oil on board laid on canvas
£28,000.00
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Le Manege
by Nikolai Aleksandrovich Tarkhoff
c. 1930
Oil on board
£4,950.00
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Nu dans les nuages
by Albert BraÏtou-Sala
Adrien Demont originally studied law in Douai but then decided to devote himself to painting. His first lessons were in his hometown. Later, he collaborated with Émile Breton. In 1871, he met Jean-Baptiste Corot during his visit to Douai and, shortly after, went to Paris, where he found a position in the workshops of Joseph Blanc.
In 1880, he married the daughter of the painter, Jules Breton, who would herself become a well-known painter under the name Virginie Demont-Breton. Originally, the couple settled in Montgeron but, the following year, they discovered the village of Wissant on the Côte d'Opale. That is where they chose to settle and, in 1891, built a villa in the Egyptian Revival style that they named the "Typhonium".
They soon attracted a circle of students that included Georges Maroniez, Fernand Stiévenart, Henri Duhem and Félix Planquette . They met together frequently until the beginning of World War I. In 1905, Demont was elected a member of "Rosati", a goguette located in Arras. The following year, he was named a Knight in the Legion of Honour.The year before his death, he published a book of memoirs called Souvenances. Promenades à travers ma vie, describing everyday life and the artistic milieu in Northern France.
Museum and Gallery Holdings
Amiens: The Mill; Farm in the Dauphiné Region
Arras: The Flood
Douai: The Brickyard
Dunkirk: The Coast of Finistère
Le Havre: August in the North; Winter in Douai
Lille: The Betrothal
Melbourne: Don Quixote
New York (Metropolitan Mus. of Art): The Old Man's Garden
Paris (MAM): Night; Abel
Paris (Mus. du Petit Palais): Northern Beach; Cluny Square